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Pandanus conoideus is a plant in the Pandanus family from New Guinea.Its fruit is eaten in Papua New Guinea and Papua, Indonesia.The fruit has several names: marata, marita in Papua New Guinea local language, kuansu in Dani of Wamena [1] [2] or buah merah ("red fruit") in common Indonesian.
The oval fruit (technically a strobilus) measures 1–3.5 cm long, it consists of a thin velvety integument and a large nut-like endosperm 2–4 cm long inside. Fleshy strobili weigh about 5.5 g, the endosperm alone 3.8 g. It changes colour from yellow to orange, purple or pink when ripe. [5]
It bears short bunches of few fruit (usually 4 to 12). The individual fruit are around 3.5 cm (1.4 in) long and 4 to 5 cm (1.6 to 2.0 in) in diameter, generally round, and have a somewhat thick skin that has little to no latex when ripe. Each fruit has 1 to 2 seeds. The seeds are small, with thick flesh, a sweet scent, and a sweet or sour taste.
The fruit is a round to oval single-seeded drupe, 3–6 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long, rarely to 8 cm (3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long and 3–4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) broad, borne in a loose pendant cluster of ten to twenty fruits together. The leathery skin is reddish (rarely orange or yellow) and covered with fleshy pliable ...
Syzygium malaccense has a number of English common names. It is known as a Malay rose apple, or simply Malay apple, mountain apple, rose apple, Otaheite apple, pink satin-ash, plumrose and pommerac (derived from pomme Malac, meaning "Malayan apple" in French). [2]
The fruit is large, 15–25 cm (6–10 in) in diameter, [5] usually weighing 1–2 kilograms (2–4 pounds). It has a thicker rind than a grapefruit, and is divided into 11 to 18 segments. The flesh tastes like mild grapefruit, with a little of its common bitterness (the grapefruit is a hybrid of the pomelo and the orange).
The ash gourd is also used by Hindus as a sacrificial offering in lieu of animal sacrifice. The gourd is marked with vermillion and split in two with a sword. In Kerala , the plant is called കുമ്പളം kumbalam and the fruit is called കുമ്പളങ്ങ kumbalanga or കൂശ്മാണ്ടം kooshmandam .
The tree is grown and propagated from shoots that form spontaneously in the axils of lower leaves. Pandanus fruits are eaten by animals including bats, rats, crabs, and elephants, but the vast majority of species are dispersed primarily by water. [9] Its fruit can float and spread to other islands without help from humans. [22]